On October 26, 2017 the State Service for Food Safety of the Ministry of Agriculture of RA hosted the representatives of the Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare. The purpose of the visit was to present to the Armenian food safety experts the international program on reduce the spread of antibiotic […]

The State Service for Food Safety of Ministry of Agriculture of RA, in the scope of inspection, has suspended the production of “ED-MIT” LLC. As a result of the inspections, it was found out that a number of sanitary and hygienic requirements were violated. Besides, the laboratory examination of meat and meat products on microbiological […]

The State Service for Food Safety of the Ministry of Agriculture of RA, in the scope of the state control, has suspended the public catering production function in the kindergartens of “Artik N4” and “Ani” in Maralik community.
As a result of the inspections, the Service revealed gross violations of sanitary and hygienic norms in two […]

The State Service for Food Safety of the Ministry of Agriculture of RA in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture will conduct research in the fruits and vegetables market throughout the country during the November and December, in order to find out the origin of fruits and vegetables and provide complete information to consumers. The […]

The State Service for Food Safety of the Ministry of Agriculture is creating database for business operators to facilitate export procedures.

The database will enable business operators to obtain the accompanying documents of the consignments on the same day without laboratory testing in case of submitting required information in accordance with the format (form is enclosed).

On the 10th of February Mr. Ishkhan Karapetyan, the Head of the Service (hereinafter referred as the Head) and Mr. Albert Weterings, Country Coordinator of “Netherlands senior experts” foundation (PUM) signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at creating large platform for business operators to learn about the international best practices.

From 22nd to 23rd of February, Ignati Arakelyan, the Minister of Agriculture of RA (hereinafter referred as the Minister) and Ishkhan Karapetyan, the Head of the State Service for Food Safety of MoA of RA (hereinafter referred as the Head) during the official visit to Georgia met Levan Davitashvili, the Minister of Agriculture of Georgia.

On the 23rd of February Ishkhan Karapetyan, the Head of the State Service for Food Safety of MoA of RA and Zurab Chekurashvili, the Head of LEPL National Food Agency of Georgia signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the cooperation in the food safety, veterinary and phytosanitary sectors.

By the Order of the Head of the State Service for Food Safety of MoA of RA the import of live birds (all types), all types of poultry products, raw materials (feather, fluff), eggs for sale and incubation, bone flour, feed, complementary feeding stuff (excluding the complementary feeding stuff containing synthetic and chemical materials), eggs’ […]

Taking into account the risks detected in non-alcoholic beverages sector within the state surveillance including calls from consumers and NGOs the Service is conducting monitoring in the above mentioned market. Some results of the monitoring have already been summarized.

Non-compliances of the legal requirements regulating food safety field were detected by the Service in 15 business […]